I-Corps: Educational game based on research from Jurassic and current coral reefs

I-Corps：基于侏罗纪和现今珊瑚礁研究的教育游戏

• 批准号: 2330981
• 负责人: Rowan Martindale
• 金额: $ 5万
• 依托单位: University of Texas at Austin
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2023
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2023-07-01 至 2024-06-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=2330981&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Corps; Educational; game; based; research

The broader impact/commercial potential of this I-Corps project is the development of an educational game based on understanding how coral reefs survive environmental change. This proposed game is a learning tool that guides players through the processes of evolution and extinction using real-world examples. Integrating science with gaming encourages active learning via collaboration and strategizing. The goal is to increase scientific literacy and encourage engagement with conservation. Understanding how coral reefs might react to real-world scenarios (as modeled in a game) may provider an understanding of how modern ocean communities may be protected using guiding conservation, laws, and remediation. An educated and engaged public is key to conservation. The accessibility and popularity of mobile and computer games may make their adoption easier and more enjoyable. Most educational games are marketed towards young children or are focused on biology, chemistry, or physics. The proposed technology incorporates Earth science principles and examples in a well-designed, well-tested game aimed at high school, college, and adult audiences.This I-Corps project is based on the development of an educational Earth science mobile, web, or computer game using the understanding how ecosystems survived past environmental change. The benefits of collaborative learning and game-based learning have been well established, but very rarely do games incorporate new scientific discoveries or concepts. The proposed game is designed to incorporate Earth sciences, evolution, and the fossil record. The proposed educational electronic game has been tested as a board game that teaches the player about environmental change, reef ecology and evolutionary mechanisms as well as how these systems interact to cause major community change through time. The game incorporates environments, biotas, and climate change scenarios from research on Jurassic-aged reefs in Morocco and coral reefs alive today in Jamaica. The game and associated material have been assessed in undergraduate geoscience, oceanography, and biology classes and show the potential to teach students about coral reefs and how they change through time in response to their own evolution as well as environmental shifts on our planet.This award reflects NSF's statutory mission and has been deemed worthy of support through evaluation using the Foundation's intellectual merit and broader impacts review criteria.

这个I-Corps项目的更广泛的影响/商业潜力是基于了解珊瑚礁如何在环境变化中生存的教育游戏的开发。 该提出的游戏是一种学习工具，可指导玩家使用现实世界的示例进行进化和灭绝的过程。将科学与游戏融为一体，可以通过协作和战略鼓励积极学习。 目的是提高科学素养并鼓励参与保护。了解珊瑚礁如何对现实世界的反应（如游戏中的建模）可以提供对如何使用指导保护，法律和补救来保护现代海洋社区的理解。受过教育和敬业的公众是保护的关键。移动和计算机游戏的可访问性和普及可能会使他们的采用更加轻松，更有趣。大多数教育游戏都针对幼儿或专注于生物学，化学或物理学。 提出的技术将地球科学原理和示例纳入了针对高中，大学和成人受众的精心设计，经过良好测试的游戏中。该I-Corps项目基于教育地球科学移动，Web或计算机游戏的开发，该项目使用生态系统如何幸存过去的环境变化。 协作学习和基于游戏的学习的好处已经建立得很好，但是很少游戏结合新的科学发现或概念。拟议的游戏旨在结合地球科学，进化和化石记录。拟议的教育电子游戏已作为棋盘游戏进行了测试，该游戏向玩家讲述了环境变化，礁生态和进化机制以及这些系统如何相互作用以导致主要社区随着时间的变化。该游戏结合了摩洛哥和珊瑚礁今天在牙买加的侏罗纪珊瑚礁研究中的环境，生物群和气候变化方案。游戏和相关的材料已经在大学生的地球科学，海洋学和生物学课程中进行了评估，并展示了向学生传授珊瑚礁的知识，以及如何在时间上响应自己的进化以及对我们地球上的环境转变，这奖反映了NSF的法规使命，并通过使用基金会的智力效果和宽阔的范围进行评估，并被认为是值得通过评估的智力和宽阔的影响。